The national chart of Australia

There are many charts for various stages in the development of Australia,
beginning with Captain Cook's voyage in the 18th century. However, the
birth of modern Australia, with its federal system, occurred in 1901,
when both the Sun and Saturn were together in the tenacious, goal-orientated,
earthy sign of Capricorn.

Although some people might imagine that Australia
is represented entirely by Dame Edna and Crocodile Dundee, the tough,
enduring, determined quality of this horoscope, enriched by far-ranging,
innovative thinking and enormous creative power, suggests an altogether
different and more potent entity. The emphasis in Australia's birth
chart is in those spheres connected with philosophy and the deeper levels
of
existence, and this is reflected in the work of the great novelist
Patrick White as well as a thriving, sophisticated astrological community
and
a film industry whose creative versatility often puts Hollywood to
shame.

Pluto, moving over the four planets placed in Sagittarius in Australia's
chart, is likely to expand and enrich the creative potential of the
country,
as well as bringing to the boil that ferociously independent spirit
which seeks complete freedom from its British past. It is likely that
over
the next few years Australia will indeed make its own way in the
world as a fully independent nation state.

Despite a deep love of material
stability and of the land itself, reflected by the nation's Moon
in
Taurus, Pluto's powerful transits are likely to be reflected in some
necessary
upheaval and change in political and economic structures as well
as in a deep re-evaluation of the relationship Australians have with
their
native Aboriginal population. The next few years are likely to
be exciting, turbulent, productive times which release great creative
potential
and
demand the expression of a new and more potent identity to the
outside world.